Russell Phillips

Before the war, Germans were jovial and hospitable to foreigners. But after it started, they displayed growing intolerance and savagery.

“In spite of the ‘Über Alles’ refrain, Pan-Germanism never did have a hold on the lower class. The common people were too completely shackled by the rigorous regulations of the despotic nationalism, to dream of ‘places in the sun’ or colonies across the sea.”